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OYEL0ysAS FEMALE INSTITUTE.

OYEL0USAS FEMALE INSTITUTE.
Opetousas st. Landry Parish, La.
NNHIS Institution will resnme duties Monday, Sep
Il tembt r 9Th, 1896. under the immediate super sion
of Mrs. III. Nj. Hayes and Mrs. M. A. Davis, with
competent assistants. =. The scholastic year consists Of
fortJ weeks.
TERMS OF TUITION:
preparatory Department, per month. ....."....s&9
Academic ..-.......... 800
Music, with usa of piln1 49,. 90. SEQ
Boarding, including washing, light and flu ell. .... 1900
Embroidery. wax flowers, paintiEg, drawl ng,
each, .......-... ....lu.W
incidental tee .-....... i|W
DISCIPLINE:
The government of this school is strict but parental;
no hard tasks or restrictions are imposed, but every
student must comply with the rules. and must prepare
up to he measure of her ability, the lessons assigned.
Our course of study and moda of instruction are to
train the mind to b lbits of correct think ing AID thor
oIgh investi ration. DO student will be allowed to en-
ter higher classes without thorough prso ration. Pa
rents and guardians may rest assured that the mannsrs.
health and morals of the children a1d wards shall re-
ceive due attention.
No deduction for absence. unless in case of protract-
ed illness. The location of the town is heaithful and
easy of access. The boarding department is under the
immediate charge of Mrs. Hayes. B)arders will pro.
vide themselves with blankets and towels. For par
ticulars address
MRS. NJ. NJ. HAYES,
July $685. nov 27'79. Principal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
A STRANGE REQUEST.
A Fortune Left to the German Government by
a Frenchman.

A Fortune Left to the German Government by
a Frenchman.
A French landowner died the other dav,
leaving the whole of his estate to the Ger
man government for the purpose of found
ing German settlement. The Paris cor
respondent of The Daily News thus ex-
plains how this bequest came to be made.
M Bareiller, ex-mayOr of Boissise-le- Roi,
a country town situated in the Seine-et-
Marine, not far from Paris, was sentenced
to years imprisonment in 1886 for hav
ing fired at and wounded workman who
pressed him for payment of a debt of 10
shillings. Mr.. Bareiller, who was natur-
ally of an ungoverable temper, was driven
mad with anger by his sentence. During
his detention this sense of bitterness grew
deeper ON account of his impotence to
give vent to it, added to the hardships of
prison life. His constitution became
shattered, and the dissa pOintmdnt of not
receiving pardon on the 14th of July
wrought an alarming change in his CON
dition. From that day ne could eat no
food, and on the goth inst. he died at the
Melun hos pital, where he had been taken
some hours previously. This Inflated
man was landowner of good means be-
ing worth about e24 900. He was cul-
tureo and gifted scholar, and would have
been an instructive conversatIonalist but
for his many oddities and crochets.
Shortly before his trial he had offered as
free gift to the department of Seine-et-
Marine his property at Boissise, on condit-
ion that it was made farming settlement;
but as he stipulated that he should man
age the estate during his lifetime, his Of
fer was rejected, because it was feared his
ungovernable temper might eventually
bring trouble on the department. How
ever he still chung to his idea, and made a
will in 1885, opened after his death, where
by he bequeathed the land to the state
for the same object. During his impris-
onment he conceived an adherence of
his country on account of his countrymen,
and he declared that he would spare no
opportunity of revenging himself for all
the infamy cast upon him by the French
judges. He drew up two wills at different
periods by which he left his property of
Boissise to Germany, represented by the
crown prince, with the object Of estab
fishing there settlement of young Ger
mans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
FOREIGN.

If the pope will, consent to accept them
he will receive costly jubilee gifts from
the king and other members of the Italian
royal family.
A GREAT fire occurred YESTERDAY in
Scutari, on the Asiatic side of the Bos-
phorus, opposite Constantinople. Hun
dreds of buildings were destroyed.
M. JENoT, professor in the lyceum at
Nancy, France, has been arrested at AL
hce-Lorraine on suspicion of being a
spy. He is in prison pending an inquiry.
AN attempt was made to blow up a
bridge at Emmy, IRELAND, with dynamite,
but no serious damage resulted. The
town hall at Crushen, County Cork, was
also fred into, but no one was injured.
A RUMoR was current at Glasgow, that
the yacht Thistle, which sailed from that
port for New York July 25, had been lost
The owners discredited the report, and
said that the Thistle might not reach
New York before next Wednesday, or
later, owing to the cutting down of her
rig.
PRINCE FERDINAND had a cordial wei
come at Rustchuk. The town was
brilliantly Illuminated in his honor, and
banquet was rendered to him, at which
he made at address in the Bulgarian
language. His movements are being
closely watched by the diplomates ard
sovereigns of Europe.
The Moscow Gazette urges the Ru ssian
Government to act with vigor in regard to
Bulgaria. The occupation of Bulgaria is
needless as yet, it says, but Turkey should
be held responsible for the violation of
the Berlin treaty, and threatened with
the occupation of Trebizonde and
Erzeroum unless order be restored In
3 Ilgaria.
A BLUE book on the Afghan frontier
negotiation has just been issued. 1t
shows that the fEal settlement is based on
equal and mutual concessions on the part
Of Russia and Afghanistan. The latter
comedies rather larger area of territory,
but the land is valueless, while the Russian
concession will be the source of a small
income to Afghanistan.
The Bulgarian government is advised
by its representative at Constantinople
that the porte recognizes Prince Ferdi-
nand's election, but that the sultan, not
having been asked to consent to the
princes acceptance, will maintain it's
present attitude for time. The porte
has sent circular to the powers asking
advice as to its policy in the premises.
At a banquet rendered him by the gar
rison at T1rnova, Prince Ferdinand pledg-
ed himself to preserve intact everything
with which the name of Prince Alexander
was connected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineerS is holding its annual convention
at Atlanta, Georgia, with large attend
ance.
A RICH discovery of lead has been made
pear Sands, village on the Chicago IL
Northwestern railway, 20 miles from Ne
gaunee, Mich
HE Rock Island g. Illinois Central rail
road companies are negotiating for the
purchase of the Minnesota 81 Northwest
ern railroad.
The Scotch yacht Thistle for whose
safety fears have been expressed, was
sighted at sea on the 9Th inst. by the
steamship Annie, which has just arrived
at Queenstown from Baltimore. The
Thistle was proceeding under full sail,
and signalea s'AIl we'll on board.
Four British sealers were seized by the
American cruisers in the Behring Sea.
They were we'll -loaded with skins, which,
with the craft, were turned over to the
United States Marshal at Sitka.
l.. HIRsoH q Bro, importers of veneers,
at New York and Chicago, failed Tuesday.
The liabilities are placed at 100000; as
sets unknown. The failure was caused by
shrinkage in values, bad debts, dry rot,
ETC.,
The excitement on the Colorado front
Ter over the movements of. Colorow's band
of Utes continues. It is reported at Raw
Inns that $50 of them are fighting fifteen
miles from Meeher. The settlers with
their families are focking into that town,
and the country is said to be call on fire.
between the White and the Bear rivers.
TEN thousand tons of sugar from Ha-
wall have been shipped from San Fran
cisco to New York via Cape Horn. This
is an innovation destined to have import
ant effects upon the sugar trade, as the
sugar will be laid down at New York free
of duty under the reciprocity treaty with
Hawaii.
THE capital of the Phenix Fire Insur,
ance company, of Brooklyn, has been i'm
paired to the extent OF $436,562. The
New York insurance superintendent has
ordered the company to make up the de-
ficit by an assessment on the stockhold-
ers, or to reduce the capital to 100000,
in accordance with the requirements of
the statute. The former Alternative will
probably be adopted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
A Mammoth Turtle.


While the steamer Flora Temple was
cruising near the snapper banks, yester
day, about Is miles off shore, Capt. Mont
CALM Broward observed an immense black
object floating on the surface of the
water. Upon approaching it he discover
ed that it was an immense turtle of some
sort, which was lazily sleeping on the sur
face of the water. The captain secured
harpoon, and when near enough he
dexterously threw the weapon and sue
ceeded in fixing it firmly in the back of
the monster. It was found impossible to
raise this mountain OF flesh to the deck
of the boat, SO the captain attached
hawser to the harpoon, and, taking 1t IN
tow, brought it up to the city, arriving
at Decottes' work-yard about five o'clock,
when the huge object was hauled out
upon the shore, where its great size soon
attracted large crowd that gazed with
wonder upon the strange visitor. The
weight of the captains catch was var
iously estimated to be from 1000 to l,5OO
pounds; it measured across the anterior
limbs fully eight feet two inches from
the end of the nose to the tip of the tail,
and perhaps eight oct in circumference.
The captain called his catch a tortoise,
but the News-Herald man identified it as
peculiarly splendid specimen of the
trunk or leathery turtle (Sphor'yis coridced)
This great sea denlzen lnhab1ts the
gulf stream along the Atlantic shores
and elsewhere. It does not have shell
but is covered with leathery skin, with
seven longitudinal ridges. 1t is the larg-
est of the turtle tribe, and is of no value
as food.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
WASHINGTON.

EX-SENATOR THURMAN has been paying
visit to the president at Oak View.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared a general divident of Is per cent
IN favor of the creditors of the first
National Bank of Livingston, M. t., on
claims proved ting to $28,350.
BIDS were opened to-day by the Super
vising Archetect of the Treasury for the
extension of the Federal building at
Peoria, I'll. The bidders were as follows:
A Driscoll, Washington, $41 300; Jobst
Bros, Peoria, $29,481; Rice & Bassett,
Chicago, $31, 1898.
GRAVE fears aIe entertained for the
safety of the United States revenue cut
ter Bear, which was on duty in Behring
Sea, protecting the fisheries. The steam
er has not been heard from for some time
and as she was leaking badly at the time
she cleared from Ounalaska, it is thought
she has been lost.
A ooURrMARr1A1 will probably be or
dered in the case of Colonel w. ". Burns,
United States army, stationed at Cover
nor's Island. New York harbor, who is
accused by brother officer of conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentleman"
GEORGE W. JULIAN, surveyor general of
New Mexico, in his annual report declares
that not less than 100000 acres of pub
lie land in that territory have been fraud
ulently appropriated. He denounces the
Maxwell land grant as colossal steal.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has appointed a
board of officers to examine the plans
submitted by an English ship building
firm for the construction of one of
the war-vessels authorized by the last con-
gress.
Mrs. R. d. Murray, wife of DR.. Murray
of the United States Marine Hospital
Service, died at Biloxi, Miss, Tuesday.
No intercourse is permitted between the
quarantine station and the main land,
and the afflicted family is isolated from
relations.
CAPT. SHEHHERD, commanding the rev.
enue cutter Rush, reports TO the treasury
department the seizure of an American
and three British schooners for taking
seals in the Behring Sea contrary to law.
The vessels were all sent to Sitka, Alaska,
and turned over to the United States mar
shall for prosecution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25

of the useful inventions that are known
In more civilized countries, but in this he
Is opposed by his ministers. He has
been struck by the extraordinary pro-
gress of the United States in wealth and
population In so short time, and wishes
to i'm prove the material interests of Turk
ely by building railroads and making other
internal improvement At present there
are not 500 miles of railroads in the
whole of Turkey. He is contemplating
line firm Constantinople to the Persian
Gulf in order to bring to Constantinople
the richproducts of the valleys of the Tigr1s
and Euphrates, as well as the valuable
commerce of the East Indies, thus making
his capital the great distributing center
of Europe ond Asia, and raising the city
to the position which its unrivaled situa-
ton gives it on the map of the world
the mistress of the East. Abdul Hammid
lives in Oriental seclusion. He is an in
verarate smoker, and shows his European
taste by smoking cigarettes instead of
Turkish pipes, His palace surpasses in
beauty and magnifcence the rich dis
criptioas in the "Asabian Nights"
Passing through marvelousiy beautiful
gate of green and gold, halls. chambers
and apartments succeed one another each
and all displaying an airy grace and un
dIeamed of splendor. The Hall of Jewels
contains dazzleing collection of rubies,
eapphires, emeralds and other precious
stones, heaped in large basins, while
diamonds of great size and pearls of
rare LONELINESS are as plenty as green peas
In June. While the Sultan lives in all the
magnifcence of Eastern luxury, the
people are wretchedly poor. Beggars in
vest the streets of Constantinople by day
and thieves by night, and, as the city is
miserably lighted, and the police very in
different, the robbers have every opper-
tunity to ply their vocation with success
and impunity. The salary of the police
is nominally Sc a month; but, as even
this smIll amount is seldom paid, they
divide the plumber with the thieves. The
immense army of cooks, attendante and
others required to keep up the Sultan's
large household is constant drain upon
the people. Abdul Hammid's personal
expences are 100000 francs ($12, 100000
year. His favorite attendent, Kishlar
Agra, the Black Eunuch, receives 100000
francs as his salary, with many rich per-
quisites. He bears the high-sounding
title of Gardian de la Porte de la Felicite.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
A.Terrible Worm and Metaliverous Moths.
The Gentleman's Magazine

Newspaper correspondents discover
wonderful things. Under the title of
London Gossip" a frst-class provincial
paper tells Us that the greatest conster-
nation prevailed some time ago among
the engineers employed On the rail
way at Hagen in consequence of continual
occurrence of accidents at the same place.
The German government directed an in
quiry, which, after the lapse of six months
revealed the mystery. A rail ''was taken
and broken and it was literally followed
out by thin gray worm, in which the
qualification of railiverous was assigned,
and by which name it is to be classed in
natural history. The worm is said to be
about two centimeters in length and of
the size of the prong of fork in circum-
ference" The narrative proceeds quite
seriously, describing the color of the worm
and two little glands on its head, "flled
with corrosive secretion, which is elected
every ten minutes upon the iron. This
lia uid renders the iron soft and spongy
and of the color of rust, and 1t Is then
greedily devoured by the insect" The
authority of an official report and OF the
French institute are given In support of
these and other statements, such as that
"this creature for its size is one of the
most voracious kind, for it has devoured
thirty six kilogrammes of rail Seventy
nine pouEds) in a fortnight"
The same veracious correspondent
proceeds to tell US that mot very long
great sensation was created by report
sent ia to the Royal society of gnat or
moth which similarly devoured the lead
of London cisterns, and that the subject
will no doubt now be discussed with re-
doubled vigor since the discovery of the
railway pest" We are further told that
specimens Of the iron tbrs attacked
have been sent to all the learned bodies
of London and Paris" The writer OF
this veracious history must be greatly
Disguised with the negligence of the secre.
taries and councils of the Learned todles'
who have failed to publish in their trans
actions any account of these wonderful
animals, or to acknowledge the receipt
of the specimens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
CRIME.

A BURGLAR entered the house of George
L. Pettenger, of Centralia, ILL.,, Wednes-
day morning, and had secured some
pieces of jewelry when the family awoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pettenger attacked him with
pokers and he had just time to escape
with his life.
SHERIFF LYNCH, Of Alpena, who was
shot by one of the Cleveland fur-robbers
while arresting them few days, ago, died
of his injuries at Detroit yesterday. He
was the second officer killed by this gang
while resisting arrest. Three of the
robbers, Morgan, Coughlau and Harring
ton, are in jail at Cleveland.
AN attempt was make to wreck a pas
senger train on the Burlington and Mis-
souri, railroad by firing a trestle bridge
ten miles from Nebraska City Friday
night. The train was light one, how
ever, and got over the burning structure
in safety.
GEORGE KEARNs, of McKeesport, and
George Mace, Of Torrens, Pa, fought a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The venerable Ex-Governor Lake Black
burn, of Kentucky, is dying at his home
In Frankfort.
The side-wheel steamer City of Ash
land, Captain Doherty, was burned to the
waters edge, Monday, while six miles
from Ashland. Wis. One sailor was
drowned.
THE Touring mill of Dircks & Co., Of
Harmar, Ohio, was burned Wednesday
morning; loss, $4,000. The Cincinne ii,
Washington and Baltimore Railroad
bridge near by was damaged to. some
extent.
The through xpress, which left Chicago
at 3:15 Wednesday afternoon on the Pitts
burg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Road, was
wrecked at Bayard, Ohio, early Thursday
morning by tie spreading of the rails.
Ono NOR, was killed, and several were in
jured.
The inquest on the bodies of the vic
tins of the wreck at Chatsworth, ILL.,, Aug.
10, was concluded Thursday, the coronor's
jury holding Timothy Coughlin, section
boss, to the grand jury. The company
is not mentioned in the verdict, and the
good men and true thought "the bridge
was fired from fires left burning"
The st Louis and Cincinnati limited
express train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Road got beyond the control of the engi
neer and brakemen as it was entering
Washington Wednesday morning, and
jumping the track, crashed through a
brick building. The engineer was killed
and several passengers fatally injured.
The body of John j. Reilly, foreman
in the scratch shop of Rathbone, Sard d
Co.'S stove foundry, Albany, n. Y, was
found Monday, in an oven for baking
ladies. He had been missing since Satur
day, and had been baked forty hours.
TwENTY-rHREE persons living in the
Seventeenth ward of Pittsburgh have been
poisoned by eating custard cake, pur-
chased Of local baker. It is believed
all will recover. The deadly ingredient
in the cake is supposed to have been yell
low chrome.
HE number killed in the Chatsworth
disaster, or who have since died, is now
Officially" stated at rs. The seriously
wounded numbered 129, and the slightly
injured $50, making grand total of 255
killed and injured. Several of the vic
Tins, who are still at Chatsworth, can not
survive their wounds. The unknown
dead are still held at Peoria for identi-
fcation. Only one witness, whose testi-
mony was unimpOrtant, was examined by
the coroner's jury Saturday. The inquest
will not be resumed until Tuesday.
The fire losses in the United States
during the first seven months of 1887 are
computed at $67, 92S, 100. An analysis of
the statistics shows that incendiai ism is
responsible for a larger percentage Of
fires than any other known cause. Defec
tive f1ues come next, which speaks very
badly for American recklessness in the
construction of buildings. The ratio of
insurance loss to the aggregate loss from
fire during the past ten years averaged Sc
per cent. Notwithstanding the prevail
ing opinion to the contrary, it does not
appear that fire waste is increasing more
rapidly in proportion than the value of
destructible property in the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25

desperate bare knuckle prize fight near
Toms Run, Pa, Sunday night, for $500 a
side. The mill was witnessed by eight
cen persons, consisted of three rounds,
lasted eight minutes, and was ended by
Mace being knocked over the ropes.
SAMUEL RANDALL, living near Harrods-
burg. KY, Sunday threatened to murder
his wife, who fed to the church for pro-
rection. AS she was about to enter the
sacred portals Randall fired, and the wo
mar fell mortally wounded. The hus-
band fed, but the worshipers suspended
services, organized into hunting party,
and captured the murderer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
COUGHLIN ARRESTED.
A Tarantula Duel.

A dispatch from Toledo, O., says: g" Par
ticulars of strange duel have just leak,
ed out here through the arrival from
Mexico of W. G. MARITIME, a wealthy coffee
merchant. He says the participants in
the duel were Senior Victoria, a mining
Spectator, and Senior Pedraza, an extern
sive ship owner. It took place at Tam
pico, Mexico, and he gives the following
account of the affair, his information
coming through letters from A. A. Ter
renee, coffee buyer at Tampico: SEN
'or Victoria and Senior Pedraza few
weeks ago met at ball given at Tampico
by one of the chief ladies of the Spanish
society. The gentlemen while heated
with wine, quarreled in the presence of
the lady, whom both admired. Senior
Victoria challenged Senior Pedraza, who
accepted the challenge, and stipulated that
the duel must take place in dark room.
AS Pedraza had the choice of weapons
he demanded that Victoria meet him in a
room where should be placed a hundred
tarantulas of the most poisonous kind,
and that each should devote his energies
to killing tarantulas instead of fighting
his opponent, and neither must leave the
room until all the poisonous spiders
were killed.
"Pedraza, it is thought, expected that
Victoria would never except the weapons,
but Victoria did not back down, and the
duel took place. 1t was fought. in room
as dark as dungeon. There was no Sec
onds, and no one at Tampico suspected
the truth. When the doors we're broken
open both men were found on the floor
dead, surrounded by the horrible spiders,
some dead and some still alive. In spite
of the efforts of friends to hush it up,
the truth leaked out. An investigation
was promised, bat friends interfered, and
nothing was done about the DUEL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-25
The Sultan.
From the Epoch.

The Sultan of Turkey is 50 years old,
about the medium height, with dark hair
and eyes, swarthy complexion, prominent
nose and slender figure. The lower part
of his face is covered by a full, black
beard. H. is not handsome, but has an
intelligent expression. He is progressive
for Turk, and wishes to introduce some